Vera Klement talking
with students in the Abner Hershberger Gallery,
Feb 2003

Visit Schedule

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003
from 7- 8 p.m.
My Work and My Life:
an illustrated lecture in Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College
Music Center
Reception will follow--
Abner Hershberger Art Gallery
Lecture and reception are open to the public.

Friday, Feb. 21, 2003 from 11 a.m- noon
A Conversation with Vera :
Gallery talk with question & answer event for Goshen College
art students and faculty in the Abner Hershberger Art Gallery,
Goshen College Music Center
Not open to the public

Vera
Klement has been making and exhibiting art for over 50 years.
After graduating from The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture
in New York, Klement moved to Chicago. There she taught painting
at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1995. She quickly
established herself in the Chicago art scene as a member of
the Rebellious Five. These figurative imagists served as a distinctive
counterpoint to the prevailing Chicago 1960's ironic narrative
figurative imagists, such as those represented in the Hairy
Who exhibitions of the late ‘60s. With her distinctive
style, Klement established herself as a nationally recognized
figurative abstractionist.

Vera Klement's work has been displayed
in numerous significant venues across the United States. Recently
the Chicago Cultural Center honored her with a solo exhibition,
"Vera Klement: Paintings 1965-1999". Then in 2001,
on the heels of the Culture Center show, the Fassbender Gallery
of Chicago organized a traveling exhibition of her paintings
titled "Vera Klement" for The Fort Wayne Museum of
Art, Fort Wayne, Ind.; The University of Arizona Museum of Art,
Tuscon, Ariz.; and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Ill. Extensive catalogues were written
for both of these major exhibitions. Klement has received numerous
grants and awards.

For more information
phone Marge Brandeberry at 219-535-7400
e-mail to
Margemb@goshen.edu
mail to Marge Brandeberry, Goshen
College, Goshen, IN 46526.